Narrator: T-REX AND HIS DINOSAUR FRIENDS IN:
Narrator: "OLD PHOTOGRAPHS"
T-Rex: You know those early photographs? The silent, gloomy, sepia-toned ones?
T-Rex: They're SO sad!
T-Rex: What gets me every time is the faces of people I’ll never meet, people long dead, trying not to move as they stare into that early camera lens... but what ESPECIALLY always gets me are the faces of the people who did move. This was for some the only time their face would be recorded, and they happened to shift.
T-Rex: That's sad! That's profoundly sad!
Utahraptor: Is it because those blurred faces remind you that no matter what, the past can never be completely known?
T-Rex: Kind of! But I think what affects me the most is the idea of someone coming that close to achieving at least a type of immortality, and then losing it to something as natural and ordinary as glancing away.
Utahraptor: Early photography does have its own sense of sad nostalgia, doesn't it?
T-Rex: It does indeed! It makes me want to go home and sit, alone and sober, in a darkened room.
T-Rex: Whoooo!